How do you change the default font so that each time Word is accessed the
preferred is used, i.e. Ariel or Comic Sans?
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Thank you,
AmyP

You have to change it in your Normal.dot. Find where Normal.dot is stored on
your computer. Open it, make whatever changes, font style, margins etc.
Press Save. Next time you go into Word you should see your changes. A quick
way to find your Normal.dot is to click on TOOLS, OPTIONS, FILE LOCATIONS,
see where it says USER TEMPLATE? That's your Normal.dot. See where it says
it's located. Probably in C:\documents and settings\username\application
data\microsoft\templates.

Hope this helps.

"AmyP" wrote:

> How do you change the default font so that each time Word is accessed the
> preferred is used, i.e. Ariel or Comic Sans?
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> Thank you,
> AmyP

I would never use Comic Sans as my default font, I might set up a template
that used it as the default, though.

See http://www.addbalance.com/word/defaultfont.htm for information on how to
change your default font. You may also want to look at "How to change the
default settings for Word documents"
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm.
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"AmyP" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> How do you change the default font so that each time Word is accessed the
> preferred is used, i.e. Ariel or Comic Sans?
> --
> Thank you,
> AmyP

You do NOT have to open Normal.dot to do this. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm

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"Kim" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> You have to change it in your Normal.dot. Find where Normal.dot is stored
on
> your computer. Open it, make whatever changes, font style, margins etc.
> Press Save. Next time you go into Word you should see your changes. A
quick
> way to find your Normal.dot is to click on TOOLS, OPTIONS, FILE LOCATIONS,
> see where it says USER TEMPLATE? That's your Normal.dot. See where it
says
> it's located. Probably in C:\documents and settings\username\application
> data\microsoft\templates.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> "AmyP" wrote:
>
> > How do you change the default font so that each time Word is accessed
the
> > preferred is used, i.e. Ariel or Comic Sans?
> > --
> > Thank you,
> > AmyP